authored or was the subject of a WA resolution (incl. Historical ones)

authored an Issue

was a moderator or admin

was deleted by a mod

is marked by a Game Mod as reserved blocked from being reused

There are a very large number of nation names that were used only briefly, and whose former owner is highly unlikely to ever return, so the feeling is that we should make those available for people who want them. Nations that hung around for a reasonable length of time, however, or ceased to exist relatively recently, or did something of particular note, should remain reserved in case the former owner one day wants to revive them.

If an old nation has its name re-used, it cannot be resurrected, even if the newer nation ceases to exist.

Please let me know your thoughts! There is some time before this will go live, and we can tweak in the meantime.

To anticipate a couple of questions:

Q: "250M population is too low." / "Five years is too long."A: If the release goes well, we might look at loosening the restrictions in the future1 to make nations with slightly larger populations or more recent CTE dates available. But that's something to consider later.

Q: "Why does the Boneyard say different names will become available on different days?"A: Just to spread things out, so we don't get hammered by everyone trying to reclaim an old name at once.

Q: "I really, really want this one name. Can't you make a special exemption and let me have it?"A: No.

1Limit raised to 500M in Spring 2013

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Reason:Clarity (reserved -> blocked from being reused)

From a Raider aspect, now every single time a raid gets busted by a returning founder we're going to have to challenge it to make sure its really the original owner of the founding nation and not an imposter and that's a pain. Unless, of course, there are some sort of automatic controls in place.

From a Raider aspect, now every single time a raid gets busted by a returning founder we're going to have to challenge it to make sure its really the original owner of the founding nation and not an imposter and that's a pain. Unless, of course, there are some sort of automatic controls in place.

Either I don't understand what you're saying or you missed point #4 in the original post... not sure which.

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Yeah, upon further review, I really didn't fully understand what I was talking about and should have experimented more with the Boneyard page rather than post immediately. Never mind, my fears have been put to rest.

This is awesome. So many times I've had to spend 30-40 minutes trying to come up with an actually usable name while making puppets. There are just so many names taken, and it's pretty much come to the point where you have to make up your own words if you want to actually start a new nation. I'm sure this is going to make things so much better.

By any chance is it a possibility these 'impersonation' nations that are (thankfully) deleted, could be put back on the market?

Yes, that's actually something the mods suggested. From a code point of view, it is simple to let a Game Mod un-disgrace a name. But I am wary of creating more work for mods, so it kinda depends on how many requests there would be.

Unibot II wrote:By any chance is it a possibility these 'impersonation' nations that are (thankfully) deleted, could be put back on the market?

Yes, that's actually something the mods suggested. From a code point of view, it is simple to let a Game Mod un-disgrace a name. But I am wary of creating more work for mods, so it kinda depends on how many requests there would be.

Well I did ask if I could just have the password, since it would be illegal for anyone else to have the nation in normal circumstances anyway, but policy speaks against that.

Improving Wordiness wrote:@ Unibot Also if it is available again wont that mean it could be used for sex acts naughty things again?

Well if I get the nation, yes. There's no telling what I would do with four of me.